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Creator Price, Ferris & Co.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
McLaughlin Brothers, printer.
Title Important to the ladies : 22.000 pieces white goods ... for sale at half-price. Turn over.
Title At head of title: Price, Ferris & Co. 807 Chestnut Street
Publisher [Philadelphia, Pa.] : McLaughlin Brothers prs
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date [1861?]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. ; 14 x 8 cm.
Notes On verso: Price, Ferris & Co. (of Market Street) importers & makers of white goods, linens, laces, embroideries, mitts, handkerchiefs, lace mantles, &c., &c., in consequence of the interruption of the wholesale trade caused by the war, we have taken the store, 807 Chestnut Street, and will offer to the ladies of Philadelphia, and vicinity, our entire stock, (most of which is freshly imported,) at retail, for cash, at prices ranging from 25 to 50 per cent less ...
Price, Ferris & Co. are listed in Philadelphia directories from 1857 to 1861 at various Market Street addresses.
Printed on card stock in red, blue, and black.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Collars.
Embroidery.
Handkerchiefs.
Lace and lace making.
Lace industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Linen.
Linen industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Special sales -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women consumers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Advertisements -- Special sales.
Advertisements -- Lace and lace making.
Broadsides.
Printer McLaughlin Brothers, printer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | sm # Am 1861 Price (2)5786.F.198d (McAllister)
Accession number (2)5786.F.198d (McAllister)

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